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Notaries go back to ancient Rome and lasted for centuries but let's accept they have no role left

New Delhi, March 24 -- In Ancient Rome, parties who wanted to record the terms of an agreement had to present themselves before a tabellio-a particular type of clerk whose job was to write down the te... Read More


Aim for a dual revolution: India needs a dramatic leap in farming that AI-powered automation can deliver

New Delhi, March 17 -- Toyota's factory in Woodstock, Ontario, will soon deploy Digit, a humanoid robot from Agility Robotics, on its production floor. These bipedal machines will unload auto parts fr... Read More


India's data could hold the key to keeping frontier AI models accessible in a world of uncertainty

New Delhi, March 10 -- Last week, I wrote about how frontier artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to improve exponentially-to the point where it is not just introducing linear improvements in functi... Read More


Amodei's 'exponential' claims about AI are proving true: Here's what has already changed

New Delhi, March 3 -- About a month ago, I built my first app. It was a simple speed-reader Chrome extension that is designed to display text one word at a time so I can read an article faster than no... Read More


The significance of India's role in AI diffusion took centre stage at the New Delhi summit

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- In November 2023, a few governments and technologists gathered at Bletchley Park to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to come to terms with the technology they were d... Read More


Regulation please: AI doing its own medical research entails the risk of putting human lives in danger

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Early in 2020, as cities around the world began locking down in response to covid, a few researchers were still able to continue to run their experiments. Even though they, like ... Read More


How AI allows us to end the practice of treating animals as a resource for scarce substances

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Ambergris is a waxy substance produced by sperm whales to protect their digestive tract from indigestible debris. Once expelled, it floats to the surface, washing up as flotsam o... Read More


Who does the law hold liable for what AI agents do? That's the problem, not what they do on MoltBook

New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with speculation that an army of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents had begun conspiring against us. Overheard conversations between ... Read More


It's pointless asking AI to 'explain' itself: But here's an effective way we humans could hold it accountable

New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- If there is one thing those who design artificial intelligence (AI) policies insist on, it is that the AI systems we build should be explainable. It seems to be a reasonable requ... Read More


Intellectual property rights have a downside: They slow innovation down in fast-evolving sectors

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Science and technology have advanced most reliably when carried out in the open. Isaac Newton was only able to publish Principia Mathematica because he was able to "stand on the ... Read More